Letter: Tax refund snafu

Arthur Behrer, New Bern

Saturday

Aug 24, 2013 at 12:01 AMAug 24, 2013 at 9:00 PM

Dear Sen. Burr and Rep. Jones:

Dear Sen. Burr and Rep. Jones:

I write with frustration and disappointment over the actions of our U.S. Government, in this case of the Internal Revenue Service. There is much amiss here with the laws, interpretation of laws, administration of laws, etc.

My wife and I have filed Federal Income Tax returns for 47 years, using joint returns for myself and my spouse named Joanne. The IRS must know of us by now. We have used same name and SSN for years.

In March 2013, I filed electronic return for joint payers. Our return was REJECTED on same day it was filed. The Government reason was that a return had already been filed using my wife’s name and SSN.

I now have a file a couple of inches thick generated by attempts to correct this error.

I still do not know when our tax refund will be sent to us. I read somewhere that IRS strives to expedite payment of refunds. In our case it would appear they rushed to pay an unknown claimant using our ID.

Somewhere in my voluminous file is a note that U.S. must protect claimant’s privacy. When will we have our problem corrected?

The mess up in IRS persists and grows. I just received the Carolina Journal from the John Locke Foundation which I support. Headline shouts “Feds unable or unwilling to slop illegal checks” I suggest you read this. Federal officials are quoted saying “it’s the No. l tax scam of 2013” with more than $5.2 billions in losses to U.S. taxpayers for tax year 2010.

I could go on and on, but we have a major foul-up in IRS. And I beseech you, my elected representatives in D.C. To sweep the bums out of office and stop the stealing of my tax money. Get with it, please.

Arthur Behrer, New Bern

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